The Myth of Middle East Peace Decpetion as Truth

WILLIAM A. COOK

"A voice was heard
upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children
of Israel; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten
the Lord their God." Jeremiah 2:21

This week the forces of good will assemble
in the city of Ann, the Queen who presided over her colonies,
an apt gesture as the Israeli colonialist state meets to consider
the fate of its Palestine colony, the one carefully preserved
behind its apartheid wall of infamy, to attempt once again the
fraud perpetrated on the American people and the United Nations
that Israel is sincere in wanting peace. The moguls that control
our press and TV channels sing the praises of Ehud Olmert and
the Israeli Knesset as custodians of peace seeking to bring justice
to the war weary peoples of Palestine. Thus are sown the seeds
of discord that will reap the whirlwind of bitter disappointment,
followed by the weeping and gnashing of teeth by these perpetrators
of deceit.

How can any serious person
consider the probability of peace in Palestine when the Olmert
government includes the racist party of Avigdor Lieberman who
advocates the expulsion of Palestinians from their land, and
has, in effect, achieved a "Targeted assassination"
of the summit before the invitations went out (Ha'aretz,
Yossi Verter, "Assassinating Annapolis," 15/11/07)?
How can any serious person consider the probability of peace
when the broker of record is the United States, the erstwhile
Godfather of the Neo-con Zionists that control both Israel and
the multitude of AIPACs that own our Congress? And even now,
as the world waits with baited breathe the possibility of peace,
the racist government of Olmert cuts off electricity to the already
decimated people of Gaza because he does not accede to international
law but only to his own.

In brutally blunt terms, the
peace process overseen by Condoleeza Rice is a joke. The United
States is not an honest broker. It has colluded with the Olmert
government to negate the democratically elected government of
Palestine, and then, in all brazen chutzpas, has engaged a previously
discarded politician, Ahmud Abbas, as a straw man to circumvent
the duly elected government. In this process our government and
that of Israel has decimated the Palestinian people making their
lives a living hell, and they have done it in full contravention
of international law that prohibits collective punishment and
demands of the occupier that they care for the people under their
control. Concurrent with these deplorable actions, the "broker,"
the fair and balanced broker, has not only continued its normal
welfare to the state of Israel in the form of 5 billion in aid,
but has doubled that this year while adding an additional 15
billion over the next ten years. How can the world blind itself
to the hypocrisy of these actions?

But the picture painted above
does not reveal the real reason why peace is impossible in Palestine.
The real reason is imbedded in the reality of Zionism and the
forces that now control and have controlled the rise of the Israeli
state from the very beginning. It is that story that must be
told for in it resides the curse of Jeremiah condemning the Jews
who have "perverted their way, and they have forgotten the
Lord their God."

In a heretofore unreleased
file housed in the Rhodes archives of the Bodleian Library at
Oxford (MSS.Medit. S. 20 (1), the Palestine Government (the British
Mandate government) submitted a most secret report to the British
Secretary of State through its High Commissioner, Harold MacMichael.
The document labeled "Jewish Approaches to the Question
of Jewish-Arab Co-Operation during the period 1919-1941"
covers the early attempts by Jewish leaders, before the takeover
of the Jewish population by the Zionists from Europe, to find
accommodation through agreements and assimilation with the much
larger Arab population. The report outlines two "schools
of thought" among the Jews: a majority opinion that regarded
Jewish Agency co-operation as an "instrument, which can
be picked up and set aside as needed, for establishing a Jewish
state in Palestine," and a minority opinion that regarded
co-operation with Arabs as essential to the continued existence
of the Jews in Palestine. A side note states that intellectuals,
professionals and socialists belonged to this second group. The
report mentions three phases of co-operation.

a. Phase one began in 1919
with the Feisal-Weizman agreement, based on idealism and liberal
principles for fruitful partnership with the Arabs, an agreement
built on the assumption that the two peoples had much in common
and could be mutually supportive in the development of a state
beneficial to both. The French occupation of Damascus in the
following year brought a halt to the continuation of this agreement
since Feisal lost his throne and was no longer in a position
to affect it.

b. The second phase directed
its attention towards a political compromise, i.e. to establish
a modus vivendi in Palestine from 1929 until the promulgation
of the British "White Paper" in 1939.

c. The third phase, as the
report was being written, referred to what existed in 1941-1947
between the Arab Federation and the Jews in Palestine.

The Feisal-Weizman agreement
detailed how the Balfour Declaration could be affected and guaranteed,
how continuation of Jewish immigration on a larger scale could
be accommodated while maintaining the rights of the indigenous
population, and how freedom of worship, Moslem control of their
holy places, economic assistance by the newly arrived Zionist
groups could be achieved, with the understanding, that the agreement
would be implemented, contingent upon the claim submitted to
the Peace Conference for Arab independence in Palestine. The
parties did not contemplate Palestine as either a Jewish or an
Arab state but rather a bi-national state associated with other
Arab states.

The Feisal-Weizman agreement
did not die altogether. Dr. Chaim Kalvarisky, working on behalf
of the Brith Shalom, the Kidma Mizrahi, and the Jewish Arab Co-operation
groups, and at the invitation of a Feisal advisor, outlined a
plan based on the historical affinity of the two peoples that
could serve as a foundation for collaboration, that both groups
would have opportunities to administer the country, and practical
measures for education based on the ideal of close co-operation
and freedom of immigration into Palestine by Jews could work.
The Zionists wanted a National Home supported, not by the Arab
Federation, but by Europe and the United States. This plan
was submitted to the Zionist Council in 1936 and was rejected
out of hand. That rejection doomed the dreams of Dr. Kalvarisky
for a state where Jewish and Arab cultures could develop "side
by side in perfect and undisturbed harmony."

The British report notes the
Royal Commission had determined by 1937 that Jewish Arab co-operation
was not possible, indeed, that the two sides were irreconcilable.
"The Jewish desire for a National Home in fact excluded
Arabs and this was the main objection of Arabs to further co-operation."
It's important to realize that the conclusion arrived at in this
report comes after the Zionist organization had taken absolute
control of the Jews in Palestine. "The Zionist organization,
the whole social structure which it has created in Palestine,
has the trappings but none of the essentials of democracy. The
community is under the closed oligarchy of the Jewish official
organizations which control Zionist policy and circumscribe the
lives of the Jewish community in all directions The reality
of power is in the Agency, with the Hagana, the illegal military
organization, always in the background." (MacMichael, 2).

The report itself, accompanied
as it is with documentary evidence from the Jewish organizations
detailing their activities, demonstrates that the Zionists had
created "(1) a secret army and espionage system, (2) utilized
smuggling, theft and the manufacture of arms (3) illegal immigration,
(4) violence and civil disobedience, (5) seditious and hostile
propaganda, and (6) encroachment upon the civil rights of Jewish
citizens to force their will upon the Jewish people and undermine
the legitimate government in Palestine." This last item
is perhaps the most telling and the least known or understood.
The Zionists controlled the Jewish communities by intimidation,
coercion, physical harm and even death. (Evidence, based on seized
documents from the Jewish organizations, presented in the appendices
of the report (see appendices XXXVII, XLb and B among others)
reveal these methods of handling uncooperative Jews.

No one can help but see the
irony of the conditions now faced by the Israeli government as
it occupies Palestine and is confronted by "terrorists"
fighting for their own homeland. Thus does the wolf in its uncontrollable
viciousness bite its own tail.

We must not overlook the initial
impetus of the Jews, the real Jews, to further their condition
by full co-operation with the Arabs that inhabited Palestine
when the British were in charge of the Mandate. "Since authentic
Jewish people are opposed to the notion of a State altogether,
there would be no problem whatsoever in Jews living in the area
of Israel and Palestine. For hundreds of years there were Jewish
communities of Prayer and study in the area that the State of
Israel rules today. These communities lived in complete peace
with the surrounding Arabs. The hatred between Jews and Arabs
in Palestine was caused by Zionism." "The true definition
of a Jew is faith and Torah. Zionism says it is nationalism."
(Pat Harrington interview with Rabi Beck of Neturei Karta, 1991).

To what extent will Zionists
go to attain their predetermined ends? Theodore Herzl in 1895,
founder of the Zionist movement, made clear the original intent:
"We should try to spirit the penniless Arab population across
the borders by procuring employment for it in transit countries,
while denying it any employment in our own country. Both the
process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be
carried out discreetly and circumspectly." Thus begins the
deception that has characterized the ethnic cleansing and genocidal
actions of the Zionists ever since. "In 1921, Dr. Eder,
a member of the Zionist Commission in Jerusalem, told the British
court of enquiry appointed to investigate the causes of the first
riots to break out between Arabs and Jews that 'There can be
only one national home in Palestine, and that a Jewish one, and
no equity in the partnership between the Jews and Arabs, but
a Jewish preponderance as soon as the numbers of the (Jewish)
race are sufficiently increased.'" (Sami Hadawi, Journal
of Historical Review). "One National Home without equity,"
so has it been ever since.

Let us not forget that beneath
these pronouncements resides an insidious set of assumptions,
never enunciated lest the truth of their horrific consequences
be unveiled, that the right of a National Home in Palestine to
exist must remain unquestioned because the Jews were given that
real estate by their God in a covenant almost 4000 years ago.
How do we know this? Because a group of Jewish Rabbis over an
extended period of years, estimated as between 400 BCE to 90
BCE, determined which books composed the Old Testament, and those
books alone represented the word of God to His chosen people.
In those books the covenant resides. Who wrote the books? On
whose authority do the claims stated in the Bible rest? Since
only a miniscule percent of the world's population believes in
this book, must the world accept the confiscation of Palestinian
land as just?

Who is this God? Does the international
community and International Law acknowledge the right of a small
religious group to assert that their belief in a God who dispensed
real estate to their fore bears centuries ago gives them a right
to confiscate that land from people who have lived on it and
worked it for over two thousand years? Should that right be acknowledged,
then the Native American population, asserting the sacredness
of the land they occupied for thousands of years before the arrival
of the Europeans, could claim the return of the United States
to its rightful owners. Indeed, they would have a more valid
claim since they never left the land that was stolen from them
while over 90% of the Jews now in Israel are immigrants and most
had never been to Palestine. Without this assertion of land rights
from centuries ago, the Zionists have no claim to the lands of
Palestine. So this "nationalist" and secular group
uses the religious beliefs of the Jews to force into existence
the state of Israel. In the process two horrific consequences
emerge: the true nature of the Jews as represented by Rabbi Beck
above is destroyed as they become complicit in the genocide taking
place in Palestine, and the Palestinian people are destroyed,
their lands and homes confiscated or demolished, and those with
rights under International Law portrayed as terrorists. Hope
destroyed, justice denied.

With these consequences in
mind, let's continue the march of Zionism over the years. In
1943, General Patrick Hurley, Personal Representative of U.S.
President Franklin Roosevelt disclosed the Zionist plans for
expulsion and dispossession of the Moslem and Christian inhabitants
of Palestine and beyond. This reference comes from pages 776-777
in Foreign Relations of the United States: Near East and Africa,
Washington D.C., 1960 as reported by Sami Hadawi in the Journal
of Historical Review:

The Zionist Organizations in
Palestine has committed itself to an enlarged program which would
include (1) a sovereign Jewish state which would embrace Palestine
and probably eventually Trans-Jordan; (2) an eventual transfer
of the Arab population from Palestine to Iraq; (3) Jewish leadership
for the whole Middle-East in the fields of economic development
and control.

The Rhodes papers referred
to above contain seized documents from the Jewish Agency and
the Hagana papers among others that describe details of Plans
A and B covering the period from 1941 on as the illegal Zionist
military imposed its will on the Jewish communities in Palestine.
Indeed, every 18 year old was conscripted into the Hagana army
and sworn to alliegeance by an oath that culminated with this
statement:

"I hereby swear to devote
all my strength, and even to sacrifice my life, to defence (sic)
and battle for my people and my Homeland, for the freedom of
Israel and for the redemption of Zion."

In this personal commitment
lies the true deceit since no individual had freedom to not serve
and thus all Jews were immersed in the intentions of the Zionist
Organization whether they understood the totality of its illegal
goals, as outlined by General Hurley to President Roosevelt,
or not. The full implications of their intent are present in
the first of the program goals Hurley presented, the "redemption
of Zion" means in reality a "sovereign Jewish state
which would embrace Palestine and probably eventually Trans-Jordan,"
in short, a plan to steal lands already occupied by other people.

To maintain this secret and
illegal army, the Zionist Organization needed funds. It created
a levy system that was imposed on all Jews, a taxation on top
of that imposed by the British Mandate government. Some objected.
A letter in Hebrew dated 5/4/46 from Y. Gesundheit in Tel Aviv
to D. Ben Gurion of the Jewish Agency decries both the levy of
this tax to fund the military and the need to use violence to
establish the National Home.

He expresses concern that he
has paid out LP 1000 "more than I can afford, to the Resque
Committee for the express provision that it was only to be used
for the rescue of refugees from Europe and not for volunteering
purposes or for Hagana and weapons." He expands on this
point to drive home his real feelings as a Jew. "I am opposed
to the use of arms except in self-defense I do not believe in
conquering the country by violence, be it directed against the
British or against the Arabs." And he goes one step further
by referring to Ben Gurion's answers to the Enquiry Commission
Hearing, telling him, " it is impossible to rebuild the
country and to found a Jewish State by resort to obvious lies."
But conscientious objection carried no weight with the Zionist
Organization. In the document that lays out how these funds were
to be assessed and collected there is this item: "Everyone
who assists a shirker or who refuses to comply with the directions
of the disciplinary committee will have all the requisite steps
taken against him." The steps mentioned can culminate in
death. (appendix XLb).

The systemization of the expulsion
process adopted by the Zionist Organization as the critical years
of 1946 and 1947 approached are detailed in yet another set of
Plans C and D. The nature of these plans does not appear in the
MacMichael/Catling files at Rhodes, but they are presented by
Professor Ilan Pappe in his carefully documented and authoritative
work, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. "It was
this Plan (D Dalet) that sealed the fate of the Palestinians
within the territory the Zionist Leaders had set their eyes on
for their future Jewish State. Indifferent as to whether these
Palestinians might decide to collaborate with or oppose their
Jewish State, Plan Dalet called for their systematic and total
expulsion from their homeland." (28).

It must be understood that
these secret plans of the Organization required the Zionists
to operate illegally against the British Mandate government.
Yet that government was essentially pro-Israel in that it was
the Balfour Declaration that gave hope to and actually followed
through with the establishment of a Jewish state. However, to
the Zionists, any action that ran counter to the Zionist positions
was anathema and could not be tolerated. "We regard it as
our duty to caution you against any attempt to decide on an anti-Zionist
solution We shall not accept the status of a minority in our
own land, whether the minority be 33% or 49%." This arrogance
against the legitimate government of Palestine, a government
required to protect both populations, Arab and Jew, meant nothing
to the Zionists and they so informed the British authorities.
"The Jews are a nation. The land of Israel belongs to the
People of Israel. The Jewish State will be established. It is
better that it should be established with your help and for your
benefit, than against you."(25th March, 1946, The Jewish
Resistance Movement, continuation sheet 9, appendix VIII).

Let me close this section with
this quote from the British GSO 1 resulting from an interview
with Dr. Weizman in Appendix XXB. "If further action was
taken or if the Jews really believed that Britain meant to destroy
Zionism, then there would be a 'blood bath.' Nothing could prevent
it. Not only would we be forced to fight the 80,000 of the Hagana
but the 200,000 reserves that stood behind them as well, for
all these would shoot. Nobody would be safe in Palestine."
(12/7/1946). It's important to recognize just how strong the
Jewish forces were at this time. They were without question,
both in their own minds and that of the British occupying forces,
the superior military in the mid-east. The cries of the Zionists
that this small group of innocent Jews were at the mercy of the
Arab forces that desired to drive them out is nothing short of
deception and a calculated plea to exact sympathy from the American
people and its politicians. Thus does deception masquerade as
truth.

There followed, of course,
the UN's partition of Palestine in 1947 with full implementation
to take place May 14 of 1948. Between March and May the world
failed to notice one of the most vicious, ruthless, calculated
slaughters ever undertaken by a purported civilized group of
people. The Zionist army went on the march as the Mandate forces
looked on, unable to stop the rampage, the destruction, the rape
and carnage. I need not detail this period, it's available to
those who would want to know in the recent history of the period
by the Israeli historian, Benny Morris who has identified 34
Arab communities whose inhabitants were expelled or killed or,
better yet, the very recent study done by Dr. Ilan Pappe, The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

The instruments of expulsion
were many, psychological, economic, and military. The Huns had
swords, horses and bad temperaments. The Zionists had cold, heartless
intelligence and a trained and superior military force that could
surround a town on three sides, drive the inhabitants out the
fourth, kill any who resisted, rape women, pillage houses, dynamite
homes while the residents were inside, unable to get out, their
home becoming both their tomb and their headstone, and force
those who fled to walk long miles to another Arab area or another
country to become refugees for the next 60 years while Israel
brazenly goes to the international courts to get redress for
Jews expelled from Arab countries years ago, indifferent to the
anguish they inflicted on the impoverished natives of the land
they stole. All of this forced on those true Jews who did not
accept the nationalist tenets of the Zionists or the methods
they employed to carry out their designs.

But the American press carried
none of this. Americans still believe that the Jews were attacked
and defended themselves against the bloodthirsty Arabs, Arabs
that had been defeated by the Brits in the 1936 uprising, leaving
that people leaderless and without a viable military to defend
themselves. But these facts are not given to the American people
nor to our Congress that caters totally to the ruthless regimes
that have plundered the people of Palestine.

How ironic, no, how unjust
the hypocrisy that grows with arrogance. How ironic that "Right
of return" as a principle of human rights to protect those
forced from their homes and land, a guarantee that they can have
redress and return, becomes twisted in the Israeli, Zionist state
to protect those who had never been to the land of Palestine
because they belong to a religion while preventing the return
of those expelled from their homes and livelihoods. How ironic
to proclaim that a state created on the assumption that only
those of a particular religion can be members of the citizenry
is a democracy and repeat it over and over so those who do not
know the truth accept it as true. How ironic to cry to the world
that Jews are victims of terrorists, heartless terrorists who
blow themselves up killing in the process innocent people while
they are the children of such slaughter, as the blowing up of
the King David Hotel attests and as the Hagana admit they executed,
only they had the means to blow up the innocent without killing
themselves, and for that one becomes a terrorist and the other
a defender of his country. How ironic that Israel goes before
the UN to decry Iran's proclamation by its President that "Israel
will be wiped off the map," when that translation is not
correct but serves their purpose, calling on the UN to condemn
Iran for intended genocide while they have been in the slow,
agonizing process of ethnically cleansing the people of Palestine
for 60 years. How ironic that our American main stream press
touts the new peace initiative as one proffered by Israel attempting
to provide yet once more peace in Palestine when Olmert's government
can remain in place only if he denies the very premise of peace,
the just return of Palestinian land to its owners and full recognition
of a contiguous Palestinian state capable of managing its own
affairs independent of Israel, something comparable to the Saudi
Prince's plan, rejected out of hand by Sharon in 2002.

Indeed a voice was heard in
the high places, a voice decrying the hypocrisy of our government
and that of Israel for putting forth yet one more time a faux
peace plan that will do nothing but provide the Israeli dominated
think tanks with fodder to show how ungrateful the Palestinians
are for not accepting the remnants of the land left to them as
Israel locks them into Bantustans where millions have to survive
on pittance, dependent on the world for basic necessities since
Israel has stolen their water, their crops, their access to waterways
on the east and west, and requires that they recognize the legitimacy
of the state that devastated their culture while that state has
yet to recognize the right of Palestine to exist; and worse,
that they stop their legitimate defense of their occupied country
in full compliance with international law while Israel cries
wolf becoming in their turn the Mandate government they, as terrorists,
fought against, asking the world body to condemn the just and
protect the criminal; and, finally, as a feeling world reacts
with weeping and supplications to the international community
that justice might at last come to the Palestinians, we hear
the Zionist's cry heralded from the temple mount by Menachem
Begin "a Jew will not bow to anybody except God," a
God whose will is determined by Zionists and Zionists alone,
and is that not the greatest deception of all, that God speaks
through the mouths of those who slaughter God's creatures. Thus
are we among the perverted and have forgotten the Lord our God.

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